About me
- Researcher and lecturer at Instituto Gulich (CONAE-UNC)
- Background: Lic. & Dr. in Biology, MSc. in Spatial Information Applications
- Remote sensing and GIS applications in disease ecology
- Member of the GRASS GIS Dev Team y project chair
- OSGeo Charter member & FOSS4G enthusiast
Disease Ecology
The main objective of disease ecology is to understand the influence of environmental factors and to predict when and where a disease is most likely to occur
decision making, planning of prevention, management and/or response actions, etc.
Landscape Epidemiology
5 components:
- animal donors;
- vectors;
- animal recipients;
- the pathogenic agent,
- the influence of factors of the external environments
Spatial interactions between these agents in a landscape explain patterns of infection risk and may contribute to disease emergence.
LS Test
flowchart LR
A[1. animal donors, \n 2. vectors, \n 3. animal recipients,\n 4. the pathogenic agent, \n 5. the influence of factors of \nthe external environments \n] --> B(Spatial interactions between \n these agents in a landscape\n explain patterns of infection \n risk and may contribute \n to disease emergence)
Applications of geospatial technologies
- Spatialisation of outbreaks (space-time patterns and causes)
- Hosts and vector distribution mapping
- Estimation of environmental indices and monitoring of favorable environmental conditions
- Disease risk mapping and prediction of number of cases
- Landscape analysis: metrics, fragmentation, LULCC detection
- Optimal distribution of health services
- Location of best routes to hospitals
- etc.
What about remote sensing?
What can we see with remote sensing to contribute to disease ecology?
Fragments
Incremental text display and animation with fragments:
Slide left while fading in
Absolute Position
Position images or other elements at precise locations



Auto-Animate
Automatically animate matching elements across slides with Auto-Animate.
Auto-Animate
Automatically animate matching elements across slides with Auto-Animate.
Slide Transitions
The next few slides will transition using the slide transition
none |
No transition (default, switch instantly) |
fade |
Cross fade |
slide |
Slide horizontally |
convex |
Slide at a convex angle |
concave |
Slide at a concave angle |
zoom |
Scale the incoming slide so it grows in from the center of the screen. |
Interactive Slides
Include Jupyter widgets and htmlwidgets in your presentations
Interactive Slides
Turn presentations into applications with Observable and Shiny. Use component layout to position inputs and outputs.
Preview Links
Navigate to hyperlinks without disrupting the flow of your presentation.
Use the preview-links option to open links in an iframe on top of your slides. Try clicking the link below for a demonstration:
Easy Navigation
Quickly jump to other parts of your presentation
Toggle the slide menu with the menu button (bottom left of slide) to go to other slides and access presentation tools.
You can also press m to toggle the menu open and closed.
Chalkboard
Free form drawing and slide annotations
Use the chalkboard button at the bottom left of the slide to toggle the chalkboard.
Use the notes canvas button at the bottom left of the slide to toggle drawing on top of the current slide.
You can also press b to toggle the chalkboard or c to toggle the notes canvas.
Point of View
Press o to toggle overview mode:

Hold down the Alt key (or Ctrl in Linux) and click on any element to zoom towards it—try it now on this slide.
Speaker View
Press s (or use the presentation menu) to open speaker view
And More…
- Touch optimized (presentations look great on mobile, swipe to navigate slides)
- Footer & Logo (optionally specify custom footer per-slide)
- Auto-Slide (step through slides automatically, without any user input)
- Multiplex (allows your audience to follow the slides of the presentation you are controlling on their own phone, tablet or laptop).